It took me a while to figure this one out until I asked a friend who used to live in G.B. She says this is funny because of a similar sounding name used by a chain of grocery stores in England - Sainsbury's. Here in the U.S. the small shop owner would probably get sued by the larger chain. I say something else, that's because the suffix "-bury" derives from the Anglo-Saxon "burh," meaning "a fort or fortified place."
Since the Singhs might be Sikh, and the Sikhs historically were warriors, I thought it appropriate they have a fort.
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It took me a while to figure this one out until I asked a friend who used to live in G.B. She says this is funny because of a similar sounding name used by a chain of grocery stores in England - Sainsbury's. Here in the U.S. the small shop owner would probably get sued by the larger chain. I say something else, that's because the suffix "-bury" derives from the Anglo-Saxon "burh," meaning "a fort or fortified place."
Since the Singhs might be Sikh, and the Sikhs historically were warriors, I thought it appropriate they have a fort.
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